Sentences with word «textualist»

Textualists like me believe it is illegitimate to change the meaning of words or to employ interpretative techniques, such as considering «evolved» meanings or the law of foreign countries, which can lead to changed meaning.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

More disappointing, Ring misses opportunities to clarify Scalia's textualist theory for readers.

Like other textualists, Gorsuch tends to view the scope of the establishment clause («Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion») fairly narrowly, and the free exercise clause («or prohibiting the free exercise thereof») fairly broadly.

Much of Gorsuch's speech concerned his originalist and textualist views.

He conveyed a softer version of originalism than his more severe textualist predecessor, Justice Antonin Scalia, had.

Every judge, including the most extreme textualist, agrees that the purpose of statutory construction is to determine the intent of the legislature.

In the United States, there can be sharp disagreements among textualists and purposivists about what counts as a good argument, and thus what makes an interpretation «clear» or «unreasonable.»

As a textualist largely in the mold of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Gorsuch has frequently advocated for interpreting laws based solely on text, regardless of the desirability of the outcomes.

Scalia has articulated this textualist philosophy in his frequent public lectures, in his penetrating book A Matter of Interpretation, and in his many Supreme Court opinions.

Amar considers himself a textualist, one who abjures free - wheeling constitutional invention and insists that constitutional meaning must be extracted from the words of the document itself, rightly construed.

Gorsuch considers himself a «textualist» and «originalist» who turns to the plain text of legislation for legal intent and reads the U.S. Constitution as it was construed by the Founding Fathers.

Another passage illustrates his textualist approach to statutory interpretation: «In many ways this case is the tale of two statutes.

He is a textualist, does not automatically defer to government authority, takes a broad view of standing, is a clear writer, and is unfailingly gracious with his colleagues.

(I am also a textualist.)

Scalia's ideological basis is grounded in an «originalist» and «textualist» interpretation of the Constitution.

At the moment those flinging the rolls at each other are textualists, so called, and purposivists, so called (a word, by the way, that looks alarmingly like «positivists», which it most emphatically is not).

That said, a textualist and originalist like Justice Scalia would have been harder for Samsung to convince that the law of the smartphone should not follow from the law of the spoon, if the law of the spoon is technically still the law of the land.

Clear statement rules are particularly appealing to textualists, because unlike most canons of statutory interpretation, which try to resolve acknowledged statutory ambiguities, clear statement rules convert ambiguity into certainty.

«Judge Gorsuch's 10 - year tenure on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals indicates that he's a highly qualified jurist with an «originalist» or «textualist» approach, much like that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia,» began ATRA president Tiger Joyce.

The Sec» y of State might view consider «serves the same function» to be good enough — I don't know how much of a textualist she is, and it would not hurt to email the office.

If it did, it would not be too surprising if SCOTUS ruled based on common law and considerations of justice that such a law / act was illegal, but it would not be a textualist argument.

When Justice Kagan declared at a 2015 «Scalia Lecture» at Harvard Law School that «we are all textualists now,» she may have been a bit premature.